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Bent County register., 1887-06-11

Two cars of soldiers we Mt west,
bound for New Mexico THURSDAY
morning.
Every stranger that STRIKES a
town nowadays is put doTE as a
capitalist
The band boys covero3 d them.
selves all over with glory Il n their
western trip.
That is nice porch in front of
the post Office drug store and the
IIewes House.
Keep an eye on youri horses
Our exchanges report horse thieves
rather numerous.
Many ladies of our city accom-
panied the excursions to Trinidad
and Tourist City.
Miss Kitue Baker went to
Earle, her home, WednesdJ y, to re-
main three weeks.
, There is always crow "a at the
depot when the morning aih even
ing trains come in.
Mr.. Rabb will move his store
to Main street as soon as t he bricl,
block is completed.
The band boys are a ranging
for big excursion to th Ie noun
tains at an early day.
Mrs, a. V. Scott is vi sitting at
Walsenberg and will visit t Pueblo
before returning home.
A man, 4 hand orgah, and
monkey were among the attractions
on the street yesterday.
Judge Orner, of Garden City, |
was in town Tuesday and went west
on the excursion that night,
Whites feed store was struck |
by lightning last Saturday. The I
shock knocked Mr.. White down.
1t is the season of the year
when one should be careful what
they eat and take care of themselves.
There will be ea1nmunion SER
yicce at the Hall lp/conncetron with
the morning seryrce on next Sunday.
The RsI of Hope will prao-
iice at tAe> city hall this afternoon
prcpagiSg for public entertainment.
6ohn J. Callison, 4 lodge City
contractor, came up from dat City
Sunday and expects to remain in
Lamar.
j. S. Porter brought young
pine tree home with him from the
mountains and has it set out in his
door yard.
-Business houses are .sglhara to
rent in Lamar that large tents arc
used for stores. 'fhere IS no let up
to the demand for hoises-
"A corn stalk that viii show how
corn grows in eastern CO srado can
oe seen nc he T-anasE Bank.
cant be beat IN e'ss conphs
The exeprsies. il u 'rrinii. "a !.
Wednesday nun.b ssed s(;sut tiNrseen
hundred people aed Tho salssi
amounted % ltiIa ossf sso,ooo !
-c. ". Mofsssa las beer "a
home from Ghes sisas ;sslis f6F
several days. 1Ie says ssveyy,hii,s- ! !
is moving alo1g nicely over u
-zs.usslfy i'ss,..sa as,ss ,oiup.l. & stser
- s''fsSs'1v,s -f'ntscs. ,.-.lf County
-A's'ps iets The eondn..s.l,a s,sthe east and Is
AniiatFs ta''1 eostiics north east OF Ia J,t,,6I
Bent County register., 1887-06-11

=. The Holmes Il I'll;
business pcoplt in that u.
made by investing in Lar,
thousands more will be !
town offers splendid oppo'
ready for the Great Sale Q
Bent County register., 1887-06-11
WHOLESALE AND RET

WHOLESALE AND RkTA
The Post Office Drug Stor,
ahead.
Enlarged store, new stock
prices.
The largest aud most com
stock of Drugs, Medicines, chcmI
patent medicines, fancy and
articles, school books, station
paints, oils aud glass, wines, Ii,
.ld cigars ever brought To "a,
colorado. Particular attention .
10 physicians prescriptions.
Store open day and night.
DECKER. & BRooRs Pruprie
Bent County register., 1887-06-11

q ear load of Red Ball tiol
Second hand wagons
cheap. +. &. ST
Money to loan ON first !
security for a term Of years.
42-tf BANK OF |
Goodale 4 Cooper will in,
house against loss by Fire, L
or Tornadocs.
FoE SALE-The Lamar
Store property can be boua
bargain. For terms elc,
GEo. + JoSEs, Dodge City,
Bent County register., 1887-06-11

Bent County Register. Yourself and IA les
are cordially Invitel to attend the and
aPeninls at the ogden Chamber OF Conniere 3
atthcir New Hall. in the Deery Block. ( Il
Main street, on Wednesday, evening. Inre
u, 1877. 5 o'clock pm.
Bent County register., 1887-06-11

U. S. LAND OFFICE,
BENT LAND DISTRICT, LAMAE, CoLo.
Hon. FRANK ARBcKLE, Register.
Hon. FRANK SHRoCR, - Receiver.
IOnice hours from 10 to u \. n, and
from TO 3 o'clock =. II.
Bent County register., 1887-06-11

THAT HAOKIsG COUGH {
cured by shillob's Curu. w
WILL You SUPPER viii
Liver Complaint. Shiloh'-
Hniccd to cure you.
sLEEPLE1S NIGHTS, md
thst terrible cough, shiloh
tdy for You.
CATARRH CURED, health
secured by sniloh'~ CniErrhI
80 cents. Sz-al Injector fred
For lame back. side or ch
Porous Plaster. Price . cen
sHLOI's COUGH and Cor
II sold by rs on a guarantee
yuulpiiun.
SHiIlOii's NITALTZEn Is vi
Constipation. Los of Appctil
Hll symptoms OF pyrpepriR.
cents per bottle.
GROUP. wHoOPING CoUG
tis immediately relieved by :
For sale by Decker 4
Bent County register., 1887-06-11

sage brush a year ago. Now it is
graded from the timber on the north
to the south line of town mile and
half.
-Rev. N a. Chamberlain, D. D.
the presiding elder, will preach at
the Hall on Monday night. All are
cordially invited to attend and en-
Joy these services.
The arch between the two large
store rooms of VI. L. Swift & Co.
give that firm and their customers
better accommodations and adds
much to the appearance of the store.
Candidates for county positions
this fall had better announce them
selves or they won't have time to get
acquainted before election. Good
many new voters in the county now.
Our people are not giving
Johnson's Uncle Toms Cabin Co.
the patronage they deserve. Their
play Tuesday night was good which
is more than can be said of the at
tendance.
The occupation tax at Dodge City
has raised a rumpus. Indignation
meetings and such like, besides
great amount Of profanity is in
dulged in. Mankind hates to pay
for the privilege of making living
1t will be sticking to the truth
when the roll is called at Sunday
school tomorrow, instead of saying
absent, when the small boys name is
called, to say, Gin the timber after
moekiug birds" That will locate
him exactly.
A tony tramp was soliciting some
thing for the inner man from house
to house few days ago and re-
fused bread and butter without meat
and coffee on the side. A few days
work on the streets for begging would
make tramps scarce in this city.
Work on the church is in
progress and Mr.. Beardsley reports
good success in collecting on sub
scriptions. AS considerable more
will be needed it is hoped that all
who are interested in the town
will assist in making up the amount.
i, II. IIslmGs' excursion to
Tourists CITY numbered two
hundred and the sales amounted
to between for9-fve and fifty thous-
and dollars. The Lamar delegation
report having delightful trip. The
Lamar band accompanied the ey
cursion. ~
. Bent County Ro.sister. Yourself and iAk,es
are cordially IBvitel to attend the antll 4
oPeninls at the Ogden Chamber OF Cortsiissre
at their New Hall. in the Deery Block. :, IA
Main street, on Wednesday, evening Jnne
u 1877. ! O'Clock Pm.
COMMITTEE on INvITATIos
Two of the best reasons why We
did not attend the grand openiag
mentioned above, are that we do not
snow whether Ogden, Utah, ISL
meant, or some place else, and
The other the ilfvitation did not
fsssch this office 'nIrii two days after ]
th4 show was oyct There is aisal
4 sGuancial 3 xea neer-Hc
men ntion. - - < - ty,
-. Nesd9e,> ~ y.
, c5Sara'io, iooasef. in The ,ra,,,, 10 70 IN
81 forks q tho Mustang, . n,iJ,.. ie $
M. ~ ,ne largest and most fertile v.,, V"
M : ~ i'ns, 'ae eastern and middle st,tas
= unsurpassed in fertuity. ana h,'l "
/ ana trnits can be easily r.ised ''a % s'ue ga
''S Is "i'aer the big iooiHle state ca sttn, q. nan
.'s'' ---'... .-rsi'.s. s'.--.------
Bent County register., 1887-06-11
For Rent

-Four good rooms. w
pairs or all together,
Goodale & Cooper.
Bent County register., 1887-06-11

Just received at Chas. |
q ear load of Red Ball floL
Bent County register., 1887-06-11

Aie'-' ise.trtiie eonan.s4s esthe east and ,
Anfinas t4E''1 sosniics NORTH east OF La ,Jtn,e
lie new town Is sitaatcd IN tho heart ~
30 state, which Is rlpidIy 4 ing up with IA,
RrS seesii'g new hotses Il CoIai-.1o rhe
eligfn Wheat, oats, coss. g,urips re.efah {.
p tet T. Ti.T greatct portion ar tho Y
structiou
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-21
NO PUFFs WITHOUT PAY.

ACTION OF NEWSPAPER MEN OF THE MIS-
SOURI, VALLEY AND THE SOUTHWEST.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, April pa meet
ing of the representatives of the newspa-
pers of the Missouri valley and the south
west was held here to-day for cOnsidera-
ton OF their relations with the railroads
under the interstate commerce law. Let
tiers we're filed giving adhesion TO the OBJ
jeCts of the convention from nearly every
daily paper between the Mississippi river
and the Rocky Mountains. After dis
Cussi0n a series of resolutions was
unanimously adopted. They recite the
paramount Importance Of railroads, espe-
Cially in the development of the west, and
the recognition of the establishment of
the new law regulating them. They con-
tinue:
Resolved, that we Cheerfully acquiesce
in the new order of things and set reso-
lutelv to the work of adapting our busi-
ness TO the new situation. Ready to dis
card the abuses and inequalities which
have grown up in the past in dealing with
these roads, We wish to stand in the same
relation with them as ell other lines of
business stand related to each other.
Resolved, that to accomplish the fore
going results the press and railroads treat
each other as nationally conducted bust
ness entities; that for freight and psssen-
ger transportation the railroads charge
newspaper men the same as others are
charged, and the newspapers in like
manner deal with the rail
roads as their business customer
Resolved, that all business between the
two be upon q cash basis or cash equiv
alent, that time tables, notices of bust
ness character and any other form of ad-
vertising should be charged for by the
publishers and no exchange upon the
courtesy plan be continued; that each
publisher fix his own rates for his space
and accept therefor only such compensa-
ton as will be available for use in the
conduct of business by the proprietors or
employees, and that the acceptance of con-
tracts that would produce any other re-
suit should be discountenanced.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-21

real soaking rain In this section. The
crop failure of 1886 needs no description;
while the dark prospects for 1887 were
threatening the c)uDtY with depOpulstion
People had planted wheat with high hopes
only to see it die, and their work and
seed were lost. They had carefully pre-
pared the land for corn, oats, millet, cot
ton, etc, but 40 raiu came, and the
planted crops were fss' whiting. Gardens
dried OUT and orchards were dong no
good. To add to the general distress,
grass and water were almost gone,
creeks were drying up and wells failing.
A few people had already abandoned their
homes and gone to other sections, and
thousands would have been on
the move by May l, but
the rain has come. For ten days we
have almost hourly expected rain, and
last night at Z O'Clock a foe rain com
menced falling. The rainfall during the
night was about four inches, putting
thorough season in the ground and filing
all the streams. 1t came too late to save
wheat, but other crops will be all right
with further seasons. But few days
ago people were disheartened and
alarmed, to-day they are joyous and hope
ful
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-21
AUSTIN.

The Hennessey Case OalIed-Penitentiary
Board to Meet Tomorrow.
Special to the Gazette.
AUSTIN, TEX, April 20.-The scholastic
census just reported at the educational
office shows 34lT whites and 1896 Colored
children of school ages; total. 1918.
The PenitentiarY Board will meet Fri
day and consider the matter of renewing
contrsc' for the working of cOnvicts on
farms and other employment. The old
contracts expire January l next. The
Board will receive bids till June l.
The receipts at the treasury to-day
were $4,000.
The charter of the Dallas Engraving
Company, capital $4,000, was filed to-
day, Messrs. Hughes, Lee and Sanders
incorpOrators.
The case of P. H. Hennessey of Gal
weston, late sergeant-at-arms of the
Senate, charged with forgery, was called
in the District court, Judge Walker, to-
day. The following witnesses were ex-
amned for the state: Lieutenant
Governor Wheeler, Senators Garrison,
Kuittle, Stinson and Douglas of GraysOn,
9lso Lee Weller, page of the Senate,
and State Treasurer Lubbock and his
clerk Workman. There are eight COM
plants against Hennessey. His brother,
NJ. P. Hennessey, also prominent citi-
zen of Galveston, is here. The trial may
take day or two.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-21
Cotton Belt Movements.

Special to the Gazette.
WACO, TEX, April 2O.-Colonel j. W.
Paramore, for several years president of
the Cotton Belt road, when it was a mar
row gauge and struggling for existence,
has spent two days here, and returned
east this evening. 1t is limited that his
visit to Texas was chiefly with a view to
taking steps to recover compensation for
moneys advanced by him while president
of the road, to help build the bridge
across the Brszos at Waco; to purchase
landed property at Waco and other
places, and secure the right of way from
Waco to Gatesvilie. A suit at law may
be necessary to settle this matter, but if
SO it will be Of a friendly nature, as the
present owners of the road are said to
recognize the equities of Colonel Para-
more's claims. It is also stated, and
with authority, that the Corsicsna branch
of the Cotton Belt, which is to be built to
will be extended from Hills
boro, via Hamilton, to Brentwood.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-21
THE RAILROADS.
How Railroad Construction Progresses
on the Three Great Lines Build
ing from Fort Worth.
Cotton Belt Extensions-The Fort Worth
and Rio Grande-The Newspapers
and the Railroads.
Home Notes.

c. c. Dunbar OF the Texas ard Pacific
was in the city yesterday.
J. Wadleigh of the St Louis, Arkansas
and Texas, was in Fort Worth yesterday.
R. H Hilliard of the Gulf, Colorado
and Santa Fe, was in Fort Worth yester-
day.
The directors of the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe meet in annual session at
Topeka May 5.
Thomas w. Jackson, land agent of the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, was in Fort
Worth yesterday. He was accompanied
by his wife.
The great deck bridge for the Fort
Worth and Rio Grande to span the Brazos
at Granbury is expected to reach Fort
Worth this week.
a firm in this city manufacturing draw
heads, CRATE bars, etc, for railroads, paid
out for labor yesterday nearly $4,000.
Fort Worth is a railroad center.
The track on the Fort Worth and Den
yer extension is laid to point 28d miles
beyond Quansh. A large force is at work
grading, and the contractors ask for 200
more men to aid in the work.
A number of cars on the Fort Worth
and Denver bear the legend, "Built at
Fort WORTH" and so they were. 1t will
not be long until that legend will be seen
on hundreds of cars made in this city.
The tracks of the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe and the AtChiSOn, Topeka and
Santa Fe in the Indian Territory are only
a little over sixteen miles from a juno
ton. April % or % will see them joined.
Nearly a mile of track went down
on the Fort Worth and Rio Grande
yesterday. The immense rock cut near
Grsnbury is nearly flushed, and the grad
ing to the Granbury depot on the other
side of the Brazos is done.
The only great Panhandle route is
CRYING "On to Denver" and the answer
comes baCk from the Colorado and Texas
Construction Company and the people of
Denver son to Fort Worth" 1t shall be
done by July, 1888. Railroad construction
in Texas goes on.
1t is said that by May l the Colorado
and Texas Construction Company will
put force of men in the field at Pueblo
to build the Fort Worth and Denver TO
the Texas line. It is stated here that an,
engineering corps has been running the
lines for q week past.
It is stated that the Fort Worth COM
mittee of six appointed to work with
committees from Grapevine, Plano and
Greenville to secure the St. Louis,
Arkansas and Texas Road have determ-
iued on what this city will do, and will
have report to make at Plano that will
be satisfactory to the other committees.
The Fort Worth and New Orleans is
making good progress in enlarging It's
yards and changing its track. When
these changes are made the heavy bust
ness done by this road and the Houston
and Texas Central, which uses the same
yards, can be handled to better advantage
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-21
POLITICAL.
Contest Over the Location of the County
Seat of Ohildress County.
Henry VS.. ChiIdress.

Correspondence of the Gazette.
CLARENDON, TEX, April I8.-Quite a
little fight is going on here to-day be-
tween the inhabitants of Henry and Chill
dress City, two rival towns in Chlldress
county (Which is being organizad), con-
testing tor the honor of being the county
seat. An election was held on the 18th
inst, at which set of county officers was
elected and Childress City chosen as the
county. To-day the votes were to have
been counted before the county commits
sioners of DOnley county, to which Chill
dress county prior to organization was
attached. Upon the opening of
the Commissioners court & large dele
cation of witnesses from Henry, with
Judge G. A. Brown as counsel, appeared
to contest the legality of the election,
cOntending that there were not sufficient
qualified voters in said county to organize
and that the petition to the DOaley
County Commissioners asking for an
election to be ordered was sigued by many
who were not qualified voters. The
Childress City people were represented
by Judge j. G. Murdock. After hearing
arguments to-day from the counsel, the
Commissioners decided to take testimony
as to whether or not sufficient number
of the signers of the petition We're legal
voters.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-21
WI Uncle Sam staud IL.

LINCOLN, NEB. April 2O.-There is well
defined rumor to the effect that the Union
Pacific stockholders are quietly preparing
to surrender the old Union Paci2c main
line for the government debt, and absn-
'don their Omaha and Council Bluffs ter
minsls, making. the branches of the Union
Pacific, which are owned by them indie
pendent of the government, a new sys-
TEN of lines with Lincoln as
their eastern terminus. The main fea-
ture involved in this plan consists, first,
of through line from Lincoln to Denver,
with q connection at Lincoln with the old
Iowa pool lines, and second linking to-
gether of all the Union Pacific branches
with this Lincoln and Denver line, making,
with the Oregon Snort Line and the Den
yer and Rio Grande, a new system TO be
called the Lincoln, Denver and Pacific.
This is to be conducted under
cover of the old St. Joseph and
Grand Island Road, which Is
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-21
Hunting Jack Rabbirn.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
KoPPERL, TEX, April 2O.-Last night
about O'Clock four gun shots were
heard in the vicinity of the depot. Upon
going to the spot Mr.. Stansell, the agent,
and Mr.. Sellers were found well armed.
They claimed they were after a rabbit,
which they wanted for fish bait. II is
learned to-day they were after some one
that was stealing coal off of a car near
the grain house. They fred three shots
in the dark, and one stood guard while
the other one went for light, and when
they had got light they saw some one
under the grain house. They ordered
him out. He ran out on the opposite
side ard one shot was fired a. ne went
out. There has been several little things
missing at the depot lately. They can
identify the party, and he is citizen, and
q respected one, of this place.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-21

than at present. The increase of the Cen
trails Fort Worth business is marvellous.
The Texas and Pacific is doing heavy
business in cattle hauling from the west.
For several days past on an average of
three trains day have unloaded at the
stock yards, and by May the
road will haul from Colorado
city alone I75 carloads. Nearly all of
these cattle are taken to the Indian Ter
ritory, the others going up the Fort
Worth and Denver. Fat cattle for mar
ket will be ready about the last of May
when the Texas roads will be very busy,
the shipments north promising to be
large.
The special correspondent of the Globe
Democrat at Greenville says about the
Cotton Belt: An important meeting was
held at Fort Worth on Saturday by com
mittees from this place, Plano, Collin
county, and Grapevine, Tarrant county,
and from Fort Worth, for the purpose
of consulting together and taking
proper steps toward securing the
projected branch of the st. Louis,
Arkansas and Texas road from the main
line, running through the northeast por-
ton of this county to the city of Fort
Worth. a line has been carefully sur
veyed by way of Greenville and the other
points above mentioned, and the people
of Greenville will leave no means unused
TO secure this important branch road.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-21

THE MISSOURI PACIFIC TO BUILD KANSAS
AND NEW ORLEANS BRANCHES.
Special to the Gazette.
FORT SMITH, ARK, April 20-An i'm
mense assembly of the citizens of Fort
Smith was held at the opera house last
evening to receive the report of the com
mittee JUS returned from an interview
with the Missouri Pacific officials. The
committee, consisting of Congressman
Rogers, Colonel T. II. Barnes and several
other influential citizens, brought with
them a contract signed by General Mana
ger Wood, in which it was stipulated that,
if the citizens donated to the company
union depot grounds, right of way and
certain other property for machine shops,
they would within sixty days commence
the construction of their Kansas and New
Orleans branches from this city and build
q bridge over the Arkansas river
at this point complete for rail
road, wagon and passenger travel.
The utmost enthusiasm prevailed, each
telling point eXacting hearty applause.
were solicited, meeting
with an immediate response from the
leading citizens. In q short time one
half the amount required was subscribed
by few gentlemen. The remainder will
be secured in smaller amounts. To-day
has been red letter day in the history of
Fort Smith, and from it will date it's
growth as 8 CITY,